Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-18
THE RANSOMED.
The Door of Heaven that Once Swung
to Let Jesus Out, Now Swings the
Other Way to Let Us In.
Christ Himself Having Been Tempted
is Able to Succ0r all Those
Who are Tempted.
A sympathizing Christ for Men and Women
with Aches, and Pains, and Sorrows
and Losses.


persons have Joined the Brooklyn Taoer
nacle, the pastor, Rev. 7. De Witt Tai
mage, D. D., during the present revival
making the commitment membership O.
this church about 1000. Professor Henry
Eyre Browne rendered an organ solo
second sonata in f. minor, by a. G. Rjt
ter. The congregational singing was like
the voice of many waters, when the pas
tor gave out the hymn:
He leadeth me! oh, blessed thought
Oh, words with heavenly comfort frsught:
The subject of DR.. Talmage 'Hsermor
was "The Ransomed," and his tsxt was
l. Corinthians, vi. 20: aye are bought
with price"
Your friend takes you through his val
liable house. You examine the arches
the fresco, the grass plots, the fish ponds,
the Conservatives, the park of deer, and
say within yourself, or say aloud: "What
did ali this cost?" You see costly ap-
paral, or you see high melted span OF
horses harnessed with silver and gold,
and vote begin to make an estimate of
their value The man who owns a large
estate cannot instantly tell you what it is
all worth. He says: az will estimate so
much for the house, so much for the fur
niture, so much for laying out the
grounds, so much for the stock, so much
fol the barn, so much for the equipage
adding up, in all making this aggre-
gate"
"Well, my friends, l hear so much
about our mansion in heaven, about its
furniture and the grand surroundings,
that want to know how much it is all
worth, and what has actually been paid
for it. cannot complete in a month or
q year the magnificent calculation, but
before get through to-day l hope to give
you the figures. Eye are bought with a
price"
With some friends went into London
Tower to look at the crown Jewels of
England. We walked around, caught one
glimpse of them, and being in the pro-
Cession were compelled to pass out. |
wish that to-day l could take this Gudi-
ence into the tower of Gods mercy and
strength, that you might walk around
lust once at least and see the crown Jew
els of eternity, behold their brilliance and
estimate their value. aye are brought
with price" Now, if you have large
amount of money to pay you do not pay it
all at once, but you pay it by installments
so much the first of January, so much
July. so muCn the first of October, until
the entire amount is paid. And have to
tell this audience that, "You have been
bought with price," and that that price
was paid in different installments.
The first installment paid for the clear
ance of our souls was the iguominious
birth of Christ in Bethlehem. Though we
may never be carefully looked after after
orH Cd inf tba iS
fully guarded. We come into the world
amid kindly attentions. Privacy, and ST.
lence are afforded when God launches an
immortal soul into the world. Even the
toughest of men know enough to stand
back. But have to tell you that in the
village on the side of the hill, there was a
Tery bedlam of uproar when Jesus was
born. In village capable of accommo-
dating only few hundred people many
thousand people were crowded; and amid
hostlers and muleteers and camel drivers
yelling at STUPID beasts of burden, the
Messiah appeared. No silence. No priv
acy. A better adapted place hath
the eaglet in the eyrie-hath
the whelp in the lions lair. The exile of
heaven lieth down upon the straw. The
first night out from the palace of heaven
spent in an clubhouse. One hour after
LAYING aside the robes of heaven, dressed
in wrapper of coarse linen. ore would
have supposed that Christ would have
made more gradual descent, coming
from heaven first to halfway world oil
great magnitude, then to Caesars palace,
then to merchants castle in Galilee,
then to a private home in Bethany, then |
to flsherman's nut, and last OF all to the |
stable. No, 1t was one leap from the !
top to the bottom.
Let US open the door of the Caravansary |
in Bethlehem and drive away the camels. |
Press on through the group of idlers and !
loungers. What, o Mary, no light? "No |
light" she says, "save that which comes
through the door" What, Mary, no
food2 "None," she says, "only that
which is brought in the sack on the jour
ney." Let the Bethlehem woman who
has come in here with kindly affections
put back the covering from the babe that
we may look upon it. Look. Look
Uncover your head. Let US kneel. Let
all voices be hushed. Son of M4ry! Son
of God! Child OF day-monarch of
eternity! In that eye the glance of a
God. OmnipotenCe sheathed in that babes
arm That voice to be changed from the
feeble plant to the tone that shall wake
the dead. Hosannal Hosanna. Glory
be to God that Jesus came from throne to
manger that we might rise from manger
to throne, and that all the gates are open,
and that the door of heaven that once
swung this Wsy to let Jesus out, now
swings the other way to let US in. Let
all the bellmen of hesven lay hold the
rope and ring out the news: Behold,
bring YOU glad tidings OF great Joy, which
shall be to all people; for to-day is born
IN the city of David, a Saviour which is
Christ, the Lord"
The second installment paid for our
souls clearance was the scene in Quaran-
ania, a mountainous region full OF cav
rms, where there are to this day PAN
hers and wild beasts of all Sorts so that
you must now, the traveller says, 60 there
armed with knife or gun or pistol. 1t
vas there that Jesus went to think and
,ray, and it was there that this monster
If hell, more sly, more terrific than any
hing that prowled in that country-Satan
himself, met Christ. The rose IN the
heck of Christ-that Publius Lentulus, {
n his letter to the Roman Senate, as
ribbed to Jesus-that rose had scattered J
IS petals. Abstinence from food had {
brown him into emaCiation. The long '
st abstinence from food recorded in pro- c
ane history is that of the crew of the c
hip Juno; for twenty-three days they t
ad nothing to eat. But this sufferer had T
asted month and ten days before He t
roke fast. Y
Hunger must have agonized every fiber t
1 the body and gnawed on the stomach o
18th teeth of death. The thought of a b
lorsel of bread or meat must have O
lrilled the body with something like fe Il
lcitY. Turn out pack of men hungry W